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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: jazzyvee on May 25, 2021, 01:32:20 PM

Title: Spoiler?
Post by: jazzyvee on May 25, 2021, 01:32:20 PM

I wonder what the history of this bass is. Never seen one like this before. https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/alembic-model-spoiler-bass-guitar-1984-160-c-6844f24873?fbclid=IwAR25HU7HRFsKj6GSqX_INCslVNXIxQF8jKy2qvSvOqb2AW89yIhN0PoxHwg (https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/alembic-model-spoiler-bass-guitar-1984-160-c-6844f24873?fbclid=IwAR25HU7HRFsKj6GSqX_INCslVNXIxQF8jKy2qvSvOqb2AW89yIhN0PoxHwg)

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: edwardofhuncote on May 25, 2021, 02:32:54 PM

I'll guess it's a rebuild. Spoiler neck, hardware and electronics, re-imagined body wings, complete with pinstripe layers. Looks like a decent job too. Nice attention to detail and symmetry.

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: mica on May 25, 2021, 07:55:47 PM

I'm with Greg on this one as per the rebuild. The heel wasn't related to this body.

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: jazzyvee on May 26, 2021, 12:15:40 AM

Makes you wonder what happened to the original bass to require this kind of rescue or remodelling.

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: mario_farufyno on May 26, 2021, 03:53:10 AM

Mega Omega?

Odd and unbalanced shape, doesn't work for my taste at all...

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: garyhead on May 26, 2021, 07:40:30 AM

Please do not show this to Susan.......I doubt she would never let this leave the shop......an assault on Alembic's "style".  ;)    ;D

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: pauldo on May 26, 2021, 09:03:14 AM

I kinda dig it.   :o 

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: edwardofhuncote on May 26, 2021, 10:24:55 AM

Like Jazzy, I just kinda' wonder what prompted the work. We see fouled up Alembics come through here all the time, and my rescue-instinct always starts thinking; how can I fix that?


This probably isn't what I would have chosen aesthetically, but the work isn't really all that bad. Someone with a fair degree of skill did those laminations. Why? Hard to say.

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: sharkwagon on May 26, 2021, 01:33:59 PM

I actually like the look of it.  I’d rock it for sure.
I wonder how neck heavy it is and how it plays

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: FC Bass on May 26, 2021, 01:54:03 PM

Maybe an extreme case of output tearing?

I would turn it into a flying V :-)

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: mario_farufyno on May 29, 2021, 06:56:33 AM

Kind of Wish Bass Alembic...

Title: Re: Spoiler?
Post by: mario_farufyno on May 29, 2021, 06:58:13 AM

like this

https://wishbass.com/gallery/Exotic-wood-Scarab-4/